Philanthropist Olivia Walton didn’t get proper postpartum care. Now, she’s investing $100M to halve the U.S. maternal mortality rate in 5 years

Olivia Walton of the Walmart founding family is pledging a part of her family’s multibillion-dollar fortune to tackle the maternal health crisis affecting women across the U.S. The CEO of Ingeborg Investments founded her nonprofit Healthy Moms, Healthy Babies America in April, dedicating $100 million over the next five years to cut the country’s maternal mortality rate in half. 

Her mission is deeply personal: As a mother of three young kids, she ran into serious gaps in maternal care herself, despite having access to the resources of a family worth an estimated $500 billion.

“It’s personal,” Walton told leadership editor and summit cochair Claire Zillman onstage at Fortune’s annual Most Powerful Women conference in Santa Barbara, Calif., on Monday. “I went through it myself, and I saw that even with all my resources, with my family, with my education, it was still really hard.”

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